I believe that the American panic reaction was in response to the Chinese panic. The Chinese government approached it as if they had loosed something they thought they knew was a major Plague type killer. A naturally occurring virus would have been just allowed to pass through society like any other flu. It is apparently much less lethal than the Chinese government expected. Chinese actions re: the virology lab suggest strongly they believe it to have come from there.
what if...the virus was created to ‘attach’ to sperm and consequently make women infertile during sex? It has the ‘spikes’ on it which allow it to attach to things...